Gustavo Gaviria

Gustavo Gaviria (25 January 1949-12 August 1990) was the financial head of the Medellin Cartel and the cousin of Pablo Escobar.

Biography
Gustavo Gaviria was born on 25 January 1949 in Pereira, Colombia, the cousin and right-hand man of Pablo Escobar. The two of them were close, and they collaborated on crimes since the 1970s, with Gaviria managing his cousin's financials. In 1979, he succeeded in smuggling five kilograms of cocaine from Peru into Colombia for his cousin and their new associate Mateo Moreno, and he would soon have a fortune as large as his cousin. However, he kept himself out of sight from the government and any other parties that would want to assassinate him, and he became one of the most powerful and elusive Medellin Cartel members. On 12 August 1990, the Search Bloc located him in Medellin and illegally assassinated him, making it look like an assassination. Escobar listened to his funeral over the radio, fearing that he would be murdered, and he would later turn himself in, on the condition that he could stay in a prison of his own making, guarded by his own men.